Why it was done   How it was done    
       
 
 
Last year's Black Cab films were shot while driving around London in a converted taxi. Table 12 was shot in a real restaurant, Moro in Clerkenwell. "It's more like a standard shoot," explains producer Chris Clough. "Black Cab was very 'on the hoof' film-making. This is organised in a much more standard way."
 
   
         
 
 
"We come here on a Saturday, shoot until about 3pm when the restaurant then has to open for the evening trade. Then on Sunday the restaurant's closed all day, so we have a full day," Chris says, nearing the end of the eighth shoot. "The idea is to do the quicker, easier shoot on the Saturday and the longer ones on the Sunday."
 

   
     
    
 
 
One of the aims of Table 12 is to introduce new writers and directors. Producer Jake Lushington says: "If you can't bring in new writers for ten-minute films, when can you do it? Instead of writing for soap operas where they're writing for other people's characters, they can create their own world and their own characters. I think it's a good learning curve for writers. They learn how to sustain a story, not having something storylines written for them."
 

 
    
 
 
Writer Malcolm Campbell also wrote one of the Black Cab films: "It's always nice to do these things because they don't take too long but you have to really focus and concentrate. Any extra word or line really jumps out at you."
  
 		    
 

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